Singapore and Penang, the principal Straits Settlements, also drew masses of Chinese during the late nineteenth century. Singapore was rapidly developing into a major transshipment port for world trade, drawing Chinese into a wide range of occupations. Besides gambier and pepper cultivation, they increasingly found urban employment in manual, commercial, service, and craft work. In Penang, the attraction was initially sugar cultivation, but there too the docks, shops, and crafts of Georgetown, the main settlement, absorbed most immigrants.